Conquering Our Unseen Enemies
:Understanding Enemy Tactics and His Influence in Our Lives. This podcast will discuss how Satan's kingdom functions to create conflict, chaos and influences our decisions and outcomes when we don't even realize it. We will discuss his strategies and provide a deeper understanding to develop your discernment and eliminate his influence in your life. Since before the earth was formed, there was an unseen kingdom. At some point, that kingdom became divided when "Satan fell like lightning from Heaven", as described by Jesus in Luke 10:18. The division was a result of Satan wanting to ascend over God, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 tells us the story. We know that the kingdom of Satan is highly organized and that he roams the earth looking for ways to influence our lives. In Job 1:6-7, we read of Satan doing just that, and we know his kingdom is organized because it came out of heaven and when he fell, so did the angels under him. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of order, so the kingdom of Satan coming out of Heaven, would likewise be a kingdom of order. These two unseen kingdoms remain in continual conflict around us, but most are oblivious to what is happening and how it influences us in our daily lives. Paul gives us more insight in Ephesians 6:11-12, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." We know these forces are still in conflict today because the final battles yet to come are revealed to us in the Book of Revelation beginning with Chapter 4.
Conquering Our Unseen Enemies
The Gifts of the Spirit Series: Word of Wisdom
Welcome Back! I am your host Dawn Simmons and in this episode of Conquering Our Unseen Enemies we are discussing the spiritual gifts and this episode is the gift of Wisdom. We are talking about a supernatural level of wisdom, one of the Revelation gifts. To get to a better understanding we need to lay the foundation.
Top Show points:
· Discussed the spiritual gift of Wisdom, which is one of the Revelation gifts.
· 1 Corinthians 12
· Power Gifts, Spoken Gifts, Revelation Gifts
· The 9 Spiritual Gifts are: wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, healings, miraculous powers, prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues, interpretation of tongues.
· The definition of wisdom is: the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.
· Worldly wisdom and Supernatural wisdom are not in the same family.
· To understand wisdom, we have to first believe, understand and trust that this gift is truly, positively and absolutely given to us by the One True God. There is no other source of supernatural wisdom.
· This gift is like no wisdom here on earth, that is generated by man, no matter what they do, no matter what their education, no matter what their IQ.
· 1 Corinthians 2, Paul discussed Godly wisdom
· We should all be on the same page that the One True God knows the past, the present and the future.
· The gift of wisdom isn’t just a stand-alone gift and it is more than just one thing. It is a set of something in a moment in time that relates to a set of something in the future. Remember earthly wisdom and spiritual wisdom are not related.
· Genesis 6, verse 11, 7:11
· The Lord gave Noah a word of wisdom, meaning He gave him an explanation of an event coming in the future and what he would need to do to avoid that destruction.
· New Testament example of a word of wisdom being given in Acts 9. In this example we saw two gifts in operation, the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge.
· Discussed Saul’s encounter with the Lord on his way to Damascus.
· Acts 9:10
· Example of a word of knowledge when God shared with Ananias Saul was in Damascus and where he was staying, and Saul’s vision. That was a word of knowledge revealed through the Holy Spirit, Ananias could not have known on his own.
· The word of wisdom. The Holy Spirit says he will use Saul in the future as His chosen instrument to proclaim the gospel to the Gentiles.
· Ananias chose to obey the word of wisdom given and the world was changed as a result.
· To further clarify, the word of wisdom is not what Solomon operated with, that was an elevated level of earthly wisdom to navigate what happens on earth at a given time.
· It is one thing to have earthly wisdom and it is another to use it. If the Holy Spirit gives you something, use it, don’t squander it.
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